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Art Institute of Chicago

13,054 works

Etching of a dense forest with a family fishing at a pond's edge beneath tall trees.

Fishing Family at the Edge of a Stream

Charles-André Malardot, 1860

Lithograph of a stout man in a boater hat at a cloakroom counter as an attendant holds out his cane. Caption below.

Menus propos

Félicien Rops, published May 24, 1857

Lithograph of men in dark coats and top hats conversing at a crowded tavern table, with a woman in a headscarf behind them.

The Last Flemish, I

Félicien Rops, March 1857

Lithograph of an older man leaning on a shovel in a wooded garden beside a stone wall and iron gate.

Portrait of Monsieur Dubois, curate of St. Pierre...

Félicien Rops, 1857

Lithograph of a man in a top hat and dark coat, hands clasped, with French verse printed below.

Poetry IV

Félicien Rops, December 1856

Engraved bookplate with allegorical women around a fountain, winged putti below, ornate scrollwork and Latin lettering, 1529.

Bookplate of Willibald Pirckheimer

Master I.B., 1529

Etching of an elderly bearded man in robes kneeling and praying in a rocky desert landscape, with keys at his feet.

Saint Peter in the Desert

Jusepe de Ribera, 1621

Engraved domestic interior with a seated woman, children sewing and playing, a dog and cat, framed by floral and bird borders

The Housewife

August Gaber, 1857

Etched oval portrait of a man in a plumed hat holding a scroll, with inscriptions naming painter Gerard Dou.

Portrait of Gerard Dou, the Painter

Godfried Schalcken, 1660/80

Etching of seated men sharing a meal beside an arched doorway, with a servant standing and a landscape of trees behind.

Abraham Entertaining the Angels

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1656

Etching of a thatched hut among tall trees and rocks, with two seated figures and a traveler with a dog on a path.

Thatched Hut among Trees and Rocks

Allart van Everdingen, n.d.

Lithograph of a stout, scowling man in a dark overcoat and white waistcoat, hands in pockets, standing on a shaded floor.

Mr. Baill.., plate 312 from Célébrités de la Caricature

Honoré Daumier, 1833

Lithograph of a seated, frowning man in a dark coat holding a paper beside a leather bag, by Daumier, 1833.

Mr. Guiz.., plate 340 from Célébrités de la Caricature

Honoré Daumier, 1833

Bust of an Oriental Man

Jan Lievens, 1627/74

Etching of two seated men in period costume talking in a dim room, with a standing woman and a draped curtain.

Weislingen Held Prisoner by Goetz

Eugène Delacroix, 1821

Etched title page of Piranesi's Imaginary Prisons, showing a vaulted stone chamber with chains, stairs and an inscription blo

Title Page from Imaginary Prisons

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1749-50

Daumier lithograph of a crowded Paris omnibus with a woman raising her arm and passengers watching, 1862.

The Madeleine-Bastille Bus Line. A trifle, a nothing... and the bus is full

Honoré Daumier, 1862

Lithograph of a shirtless worker raising a hammer while a second worker swings a pole at a building in the background.

The Wreckers

Paul Signac, 1896

Etching of two men on a night street looking up at a figure on a balcony beside a winged lion column.

Owake! What Ho! Brabantio!plate 1 (act 1, scene 1) from Othello

Théodore Chassériau, 1844, printed 1900

Etching of Othello seated in a turban, gesturing toward a veiled woman standing beside a balcony in an architectural setting.

She Thank’d Me, plate 2 (act 1, scene 3), from Othello

Théodore Chassériau, 1844, printed 1900

Etching of Othello in a turban gesturing to Desdemona beside Iago in an interior with columns.

Honest Iago, Desdemona Must I Leave to Thee, plate 4 (act 1, scene 3), from Othello

Théodore Chassériau, 1844, printed 1900

Etching of Desdemona gesturing to Cassio beside a companion, with a castle by the sea behind them, from Othello plate 6.

Therefore be Merry Cassio, plate 6 (act 3, scene 3) from Othello

Théodore Chassériau, 1844, printed 1900

Green chiaroscuro woodcut of a muscular nude Hercules overpowering a struggling figure in a cave with cattle and skulls.

Hercules Killing Cacus

Hendrick Goltzius, 1588

Japanese woodblock print of a figure in pink robes with a white horse beneath plum blossoms, and a seated woman beside a scre

The Harugoma Dance

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1767/68

Hand-colored satirical print of a startled man in bed facing a pale ghost, with speech scrolls and smoke-wreathed figures.

Nightly Visitors at St. Ann's Hill

James Gillray, published September 21, 1798

Hand-colored print of a man in a green coat and a woman pushing a carrot-laden wheelbarrow past a bookshop on a city street.

Sandwich-Carrots!-Dainty Sandwich-Carrots

James Gillray, published December 3, 1796

Hand-colored Gillray caricature of a tax collector knocking at a brick house while a man shouts from the window above.

Friend of the People

James Gillray, published May 28, 1806

Hand-colored caricature of rats with human faces fleeing a columned doorway away from a parliament chamber.

Parliamentary Reform

James Gillray, published May 28, 1797

Hand-colored caricature of a giant Midas figure with gold-coin body spewing paper notes over the Bank of England and crowds.

Midas, Transmuting All, Into Paper

James Gillray, published March 9, 1797

Hand-colored satirical print of a caricatured alchemist heating a crown at a furnace beside a glass retort and spilling gold

The Dissolution; or The Alchymist Producing an Aetherial Representation

James Gillray, published May 21, 1796